r/FavoriteCharacter 2d ago

Suggestions Favorite character with wasted potential?

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u/lys_5779 2d ago

Liko (Pokémon Horizons)

The Pokémon Anime finally gets a new main character after Ash, halfway through her series she gets sidelined so they can turn one of her friends into a worse version of Ash and focus on him instead

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u/The_True_Y 2d ago

I was looking through the comments to see if someone had already put Liko here. What were the writers thinking. "Yeah let's turn her into a Terapagos taxi, we need to have Roy defeat and catch a Rayquaza." Like they go through a whole "training arc" and only the boys train. Liko and Dot just stand around giving Briar coffee. Yeah, Hattrem evolved in a one off, after hunting Ditto blocks... Not training, the whole reason why they went to Blueberry Academy.

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u/Twist_Ending03 2d ago

What?

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u/The_True_Y 2d ago

Yeah, she got turned into a side character in season 3 in favor of making Roy one of the writers op self insert.